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Mostar

Mostar

So i left Makarska and my friends behind for a new adventure. Mostar a scenic little village in Bosnia Herzegovina. Mostar has his own history, not so long ago was a war going on there. The war is still visible in town. Number of houses have the shooting holes in them and the sniper's tower is still there as well. They made sure that it’s not easy to get in the tower, but it’s not impossible. So i climbed with shorts and on flipflops my way into the sniper's tower. It was suppose to be a bank, but they never finished the building before the war. During the war a lot of innocent people got shot from this building and after the war they still didn’t finish the bank, they just let it be. Nowadays homeless people, drug addicts and graffiti artists are climbing in and out of the ruine. So i was confused, they don’t want us to go in, they want to hide it if it never happend, but still there it is and they don’t demolish the building. Why not making a museum out of it? I mean now there is a lot of rubbish to be found, cables hanging out of the ceiling, graffiti both meaningful as ugly on the walls.
I must say that if the hostel didn’t mention that you could go in, i would never ever try to go in. I mean first you get a list of to do things, highly recommend and afterwards they call you stupid and disrespectful. What’s that all about??

I found the people in the old town much more friendly than the one outside. I must say that i wasn’t sure if i felt really comfortable being in Mostar. The welcome feeling i got from the hostel was strange. It felt like a fake introducing and i got that the whole time i stayed there. In the mornings the owner would ignore you and then during the day or evening, she would be overwhelming nice. It was kinda scary, i felt being watched the entire time, a freaking horror movie as you can call it, and i’m not fan of those.

Any way when i walked around the city i saw a lot of monuments. They were well organised, tidy and clean, whereas when i walked to the partisan monument, hidden behind bushes, i found everywhere glass and broken graves. There was no one there, except the ones walking their dog out. It is that someone pointed it out to me, to have a look, but otherwise i wouldn’t even think about going there. But it’s the history of the town, so why not keeping it tidy?

Of course i visited the graveyard, the gate was open so i entered. The graves were made up different, then i have seen before. The names and dates are written on the end of the grave. So if you would stand before a grave, you will see first the name and date and then from there the grave starts. If you would plant a flower, and you look up to the stone, then you’ll see the back with nothing written on it.

In Mostar you can pay with 3 different currencies. It’s all to make you more confused. I paid the hostel with KM, that’s their own currency. The deposit of the key i paid with €5,- and the tour i paid in kuna (Croatian currency). So 1 euro is 2 KM, as where 2 KM is 8 kuna. And now when i’m writing this, i can’t think straight anymore hahaha.

There are a lot of muslim woman living in Mostar. They wear all colours for their Niqab. They make the streets in Mostar more colourful too. I think they are the prettiest woman i’ve seen in this town, and that without even have spoken to them or seeing anything except for their faces and hands.

Bosnia Herzegovina is a cheap country. For already €10,- you can buy a starter, main dish and 2 drinks. So all the nights in Mostar i ate out and there is one particular evening that stands out, because a shy young kid, walked up to my table and took a seat right in front of me. After asking anxious my name, we started talking, without stopping. He told me that he was 8 and in 5 months he would be 9. He would have a vanilla and chocolate cake with a bonbon on top and he asked for a lego airplane. A large one, whom he would build in one day, not in a year as i said as a joke. Then we started talking about hobbits and lord of the rings and who was the favourite actor. He really made my stay and i think with English classes he will be just fine.